Engineering - Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The Department of Engineering at Hofstra University has offered programs in engineering for over 50 years. The faculty within the department have a strong commitment to teaching as well as a diverse number of research interests. Companies and institutions such as Underwriter’s Laboratory, The United States Patent and Trademark Office, Estee Lauder, Lockheed-Martin, Goldman Sachs, and UPS have hired recent graduates. Additionally, recent graduates have gone on to graduate programs at institutions such as Cornell, Columbia, Carnegie-Mellon, and Northwestern to study engineering as well as other fields such as law, business, and medicine. The Department of Engineering offers degree programs in five distinct areas: Biomedical, Civil, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering.

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The IEEE student branch of the Department of Engineering won the First Place of the 2012 Ethics Contest

The IEEE student branch of the Department of Engineering under the supervision of its faculty advisor Dr. Sleiman R. Ghorayeb has won the First Place of the 2012 Ethics Contest that was held at the IEEE Region 1 Student Conference on March 10-11, 2012, in Hartford, Connecticut. The four student officers, Steven Miller, Waqqas Khan, Steven Prince, and Nathaniel Berele, have been recognized by Peter Eckstein, Region 1 Director, and Ravi Todi, Region 1 Student Activities Coordinator Chair, and presented with a certificate.

Hofstra Engineers New Way to Teach Math

The professors knew they were onto something when the kids began to argue. It was a middle school math class, and the students were hashing out how to design and build a skyscraper to specific volume, ratio and area specifications – an exercise in geometric reasoning that is at the heart of a new curriculum called WISEngineering, which is being developed by Dr. David Burghardt... | more |

Hofstra Launches School of Engineering and Applied Science

Hofstra University will establish a School of Engineering and Applied Science with a co-op education program that will partner with a network of industry leaders to offer students substantial work experience before they graduate... | more |

Dr. David Weissman Awarded Jean Nerken Distinguished Professorship in Engineering

Professor of Engineering David Weissman, Ph.D., who has taught at Hofstra for more than four decades, has been awarded the Jean Nerken Distinguished Professorship in Engineering... | more |